That was most refreshing GWR. Very honest, succinct and wonderfully humorous. (no offence to jnycat).

Cockeral...your guidelines should be followed by all and forced reading for many.

Some of the questions posters ask on various BBs really do leave one in a quandry such as: "Im new here. Can you please explain the history of gold to me?"

I have begun to refer the devilishly "open-ended, poor me" approach to excellent research sources such as GATA. I think some mistakenly perceive "DD" to be interpreted as Duh, duh. Others are just the usual miscreants trying to diffuse, confuse, detract and board jam. Same old stuff. It is all quite funny in an odd way.